Flap-fastener for button-shoes.



No. 739,848. PATENTED SEPT; 29, 1903.

J. PRYB. FLAP PASTBNE'R FOR BUTTON SHOES.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 23. 1903.

N0 MODEL.

772%; lizyeizfezz UNITE STATES I atented September 29, 1903.

JAMES FRYE, OF TORONTO, CANADA.

FLAP -FASTENER FOR BUTTON- SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 739,848, dated September 29, 1903. Application filed- January 23, 1903. Serial No. 140,238. (No model.)

T0 on whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES FRYE, of the city of Toronto, in the countyof York, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flap- Fasteners .for Button-Shoes,'of which the'following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in flap-fasteners for boots or shoes; and the object of the invention is to devise a simple and durable form of fastener to be used in connection with each button of the shoe, whereby the use of button-hooks maybe dispensed with and the flaps secured together; and it consists, essentially, of a staple designed to coact with the stem of each button and fasten one fly of the flap and a plate on the other fly of the flap provided with a slot through which such staple is designed to extendlwhen the other fly of the flap is brought into position, such plate having also connected to it a button having a serpentine form of stem and the parts being arranged and constructed in detail, as hereinafter more particularly explained.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a shoe,

spective detail showingthe flap. separated.

Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the flaps fastened together. Fig. 4 is a cross-section show-- ing the flaps connected together by my improved button-fastener.

In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

A is the underlying fly, and B the overlying fly, of the flap of an ordinary button-boot. The form of the flys forming the flap are of the ordinary construction.

O is a staple which extends through the plate 0, such staple being suitably riveted to the inside of the fly A. The overlying fly'B is provided with a plate D, having a slot d.

E is the button, which is provided with a stem 6 of serpentine form, such stem having the loop portion c, which is held in position by the staple d; extendingthrough the plate D to the inside of the fly and a loop 6 having a turned end 6".

It will be noticed that the stem 6 is made double in form and that the portion of the stem near the button is narrower than theportion in which the loop 6 is formed and that the double sides of such loop extend, preferably, to the outside of the double narrower portion of the stem next the button.

when it is desired to fasten them they are pulled in the directionindicated by arrow,so as to bring the fly B'over the fly A, so that the staple C will pass through the slot d of the plate D. The button E is then thrown back into the position shown in Figs. 3 and at, thereby causing the loop 6 to spring over and straddle the top bar of the staple O, and-thus securely hold the butto n in position,as well as prevent the staple being thrown out of the slot d of the plate by anysudden jar. The efiect'of anyioutward movement of the fly B would have a tendency more to hold the loop means of undoing the buttons is to cant the button into the position shown in Fig. 2, thereby bringing the loop e out of engagement with the bar of the staple C. It will of course be understood that the loop e is close together at the mouth, and the turned edge 6 as well as the loop 6, serves to form a mouth, so as to readily guide the staple G into position in the loop.

What I claim as my invention is 1. In a button boot or shoe the combination with the under fly having a staple extending up from the outer face thereof, of an over fly having a slot through which the staple is designed to extend, and a button pivotally attached to the upper face of the fly in prox imity to the slot and having means for engaging theportion of the staple projecting through the slot,;substantially as described.

2. In abutton boot or shoe the combination with the under fly having a staple extending upward from the outerfaoe thereof of the over fly having a slot therein, a plate secured to the outer face of the over fly having a slot alining with the slot in the fly and a button pivotally connected to the plate and having means for engaging the portion of the staple projecting through the slot, substantially as described.

3. In abutton boot or shoe, the combination with the under fly and staple extending therefrom, of the over fly having a slot through which the staple is designed to extend, and a button having a serpentine stem formed with a double loop, a staple for fastening the stem by one of the loops to the outer fly, and the free loop of the stem being adapted to be passed over the staple extending through the slot as and for the purpose specified.

4. In a button boot or shoe, in combination the under fly, the staple and plate suitably fastened to the same, the outer fly, the plate fastened to the same and provided with a slot, the button having a double stem with a double loop, a staple extending through the plate and fastening the inner loop in position, and the outer loop being designed to extend over the staple and secure the button and staple in position substantially at right angles to the flap as and for the purpose specified.

JAMES FRYE. Witnesses B. BOYD, M. MCLAREN. 

